Per “Dead” Ohlin was black metal’s most tragic loss

The story of black metal​’s game-changing second wave is so full of massive personalities that it’s easy to forget some of them, or lump them all into one leather-clad gang of musicians and terrorists. There’s Mayhem frontman Oystein ​“Euronymous” Aarseth – father of the movement and genius marketer and manipulator. There’s Kristian ​“Varg” Vikernes of Burzum – murderer, arsonist, racist, boogeyman, and coiner of the one-man black metal band. On the fringes of the black circle and its reign of terror are figures like Fenriz, Ihsahn, and Abbath, who have all gone beyond the genre’s sensational salad days and proved themselves important cultural icons rather than characters in a crime drama. But there is one figure at the core of black metal’s story who often feels lost to the role of v...

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